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Cova R. Arias

203 Swingle Hall

Auburn University

Auburn, AL 36849

Phone: 334-844-9215

e-mail: ariascr@auburn.edu

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January, 2013. Cova has received a second year of funding from the National Institute of Health-Food and Drug Administration to develop a new training module for FDA analysts on Rapid Methods for Food Borne Pathogens. This is a distance education course that includes virtual laboratory training tools.

February, 2013. Cova has been promoted to Full Professor. She thanks her group for all her efforts in helping her achieving this goal.

March, 2013. Wenlong (Colin) Cai just defended his MS thesis entitled ‘Biofilm formation by the fish pathogen: Flavobacterium columnare’. He did a great job. Congratulations Colin!

March, 2013. Andrea has been selected to present her work at the Auburn University Research Week. Only three students from the College of Agriculture have been invited to give a talk.

April, 2013. Tao has received the ‘Overall Outstanding International Student Award’ for the College of Agriculture. The award was presented to him by Dr. Joseph Molnar, Director of the International Agricultural Office-AAES. Congrats Tao!